setting IP address manually

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:05:07 -0500,
  Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at iesabroad.org> wrote:
>  
> Though I believe the issue you may be having is that you're trying to
> assign the same IP address to both interfaces.  They should have a
> different IP address (and ideally be on a different network)  for
> example, eth0: 192.168.1.250,  eth1: 192.168.2.250.

No that isn't it. You can use the same IP address on different interfaces.
The message about an IP address already in use, means some other system on
the same network is using that address.